No more Barbarella, Leticia and Lulu

[beetoo]

RT @imMichelleChong: "So what's this I hear about Mediacorp's Higher Management banning me from playing Barbarella from now on? 有本事就不要怕!"

https://twitter.com/imMichelleChong/status/345445163763630080



http://sg.entertainment.yahoo.com/b...91.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

RIP ‘Noose’ stars Barbarella, Leticia and Lulu
Singapore Showbiz - 35 mins ago


Seems like this is the end of the road for Barbarella, Leticia Bongnino and Lulu.

The much-loved characters of breakout Channel 5 comedy hit "The Noose", all played by Singapore host/actress/director, Michelle Chong, seem to have met an untimely death.

Chong (@immichellechong) tweeted on Friday afternoon, "So what's this I hear about Mediacorp's Higher Management banning me from playing Barbarella from now on?"

The 36-year-old quickly followed that up with "They not gonna sell character license to anyone to use my characters anymore so no more Barbs, Leticia, Lulu etc anywhere." She added in Mandarin, "there's no need to be afraid if you have the ability".

So what's this I hear about Mediacorp's Higher Management banning me from playing Barbarella from now on? 有本事就不要怕!

— Michelle Chong (@imMichelleChong) June 14, 2013



They not gonna sell character license to anyone to use my characters anymore so no more Barbs, Leticia, Lulu etc anywhere. — Michelle Chong (@imMichelleChong) June 14, 2013

Yahoo! Singapore understands that a disagreement between Michelle Chong and Mediacorp senior management led to her leaving "The Noose" after Season 5.

Season 6, which started airing in April, does not feature Chong.

However, Chong continued to portray the much-loved characters in a series of property ads such this one.

As MediaCorp "own" and have the rights to those characters, it seems like Chong -- or anyone else for that matter -- will no longer be allowed to portray those characters in public anymore.

Which is a shame because Chong and her characters were a big part of why the Emmy-nominated "The Noose" was the best thing to come out of Channel 5 in recent years.

Chong, a former Asian Television Awards Best Comedy winner, has since branched out into directing with her first feature film, Already Famous, in 2011. She also has her own film production company and last year, started her own artiste management agency.

 

[Rogue Trader]

As a big Michelle chong fansi, I have to say Already famous was a terrible movie.. even the lianbang accent could not save her.

 

[beetoo]

i got a feeling the jewel@buangkok ad triggered this..

 

[xingguy]

Media Corp. How fuck up can you get

You are letting go an accomplished local talent but keeping a foreign trash Quan Yi Fong that should have been fired long time ago.

Wikipedia:
In 1996, Quan was fined $1000 after a fight with a bowling alley assistant.

In 2010, Quan was accused of abusing a taxi driver. It was alleged that she was angry that the taxi driver did not help with loading her luggage onto the taxi and throwing her forward while making a sharp turn. She supposedly alighted, kicked the car door and then kicked the taxi driver in the groin.
She subsequently lock herself in the taxi and messed the taxi up. She had hired Subhas Anandan to represent her after the incident.
She was charged with two counts of mischief and one count of using criminal force.

On 29 Dec 2011, Quan Yi Feng was sentenced to 15 months probation in Court. Quan was charged with damaging a taxi meter, pulling out the receipt printer of a cab and spilling water on the receipt printer.
Two other charges - of kicking the right passenger door of the taxi, and pushing and attempting to kick the 53-year-old cabbie - were also been taken into consideration.

She has to attend psychological therapy and counselling sessions as part of her probation.

 

[da dick]

that's micheel's karma punishment for wasting money on 2nd rate taiwan FT for her movie. now mediacock will hire a real chinaman and filipino to make clones of the original charas...

 

[enterprise2]

i got a feeling the jewel@buangkok ad triggered this..

Yeah....that '...ponding' jab may have hit a raw nerve!!

 

[laksaboy]

Mediacorp's pro-FT policy (it takes its instructions from you-know-who) probably frowned upon Michelle Chong's lampooning of the various foreigner stereotypes.

 

[SamSengKia]

Mediacorp's pro-FT policy (it takes its instructions from you-know-who) probably frowned upon Michelle Chong's lampooning of the various foreigner stereotypes.

Exactly...MDA is likely to pass an edict to stop! hahaha....so predictable.

 

[laksaboy]

MDA and Mediacorp probably prefer this kind of 'let's integrate with the FTs' kind of tv program.

There's an agenda, and you know it.

[video=youtube;erkIv7shFKc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erkIv7shFKc[/video]

 

[ILovePAP]

a stupid character anyway. why waste taxpayers money on this bimbo character which only serves to divide the nation!

good decision by MDA

 

[1sickpuppy II]

The last time I watched anything from Mediacock was around 10yrs back after that its internet TV all the way. Did I miss anything? Is she good this Michelle?

 

[looneytan]

Is she good this Michelle?

no chance to try yet

 

[freedalas]

The last time I watched anything from Mediacock was around 10yrs back after that its internet TV all the way. Did I miss anything? Is she good this Michelle?

You didn't miss much. All that Mediacock produces is crap, especially Channel 8 ones. But to be fair to Michelle Chong, she can be considered best among the worst lah. She can bring on some giggles with her portrayal of the typical dumb civil servants and foreign workers. As someone already said here, she probably got banned from playing these characters because of the "ponding" reference. It reinforces how how petty and vindictive the PAP is, which are traits imparted by the Old Fart himself.

 

[goldenmonkey]

You didn't miss much. All that Mediacock produces is crap, especially Channel 8 ones. But to be fair to Michelle Chong, she can be considered best among the worst lah. She can bring on some giggles with her portrayal of the typical dumb civil servants and foreign workers. As someone already said here, she probably got banned from playing these characters because of the "ponding" reference. It reinforces how how petty and vindictive the PAP is, which are traits imparted by the Old Fart himself.

She got herself a new role - a hen. Killing the chicken and scare the monkey.
The regime will be gaining on the negative social media right up till the next GE.
Sterotyping, racism, jokes on government failure will not be tolerated.

 

[Sinkie]

Michelle Chong.....the love of Sinkie.

 

[jw5]

Why? They scared the foreign "talents" get offended isit?

 

[Semaj2357]

understand she left the Noose after some dispute and now capitalising her characters with advertising income but problem is that the rights to her characters are vested with mediacorpse. No win-win...

 

[tanakow]

Spot on. Every time if I happen to see this CCB QYF, I will start cursing and switch channel. Just sick of watching her hypocrite face.

You are letting go an accomplished local talent but keeping a foreign trash Quan Yi Fong that should have been fired long time ago.

 

[jw5]

Spot on. Every time if I happen to see this CCB QYF, I will start cursing and switch channel. Just sick of watching her hypocrite face.

I'm beginning to feel the same way. She is becoming like the female version of Gurmit to me.

 

[leetahbar]

mediacorpse kills babarella, leticia and lulu

yep, they killed michelle chong. they killed creativity.

from shin min news, michelle is placed in cold storage by mediacorpse zombies.






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